Academic Sites:

Carnegie Mellon University - Center for Iron and Steel:  Conducts basic and long-term research relevant to iron and steel production.

Georgia Tech-Materials Science & Engineering Research: Provides ceramic coatings, composites, corrosion, high performance materials, and electronic assemblies reliability information.

Science Cataloging Internet Resources:  Contains current awareness Internet resources to aid science catalogers in keeping up to date with science news and research, science and technology librarianship, and current Internet resources in science and technology.

Stony Brook - Materials Science and Engineering: Conducts research on metals, polymers, ceramics, and semiconductors with an emphasis on surfaces and interfaces. The site has an extensive listing of "materials" companies and resources.

The University of Illinois at Chicago Thermodynamics Research Laboratory: Information on their Research focus and lab facilities and a good links page to thermodynamic data and property calculation sites

WebElements: An online Periodic Table of elements.

Commercial Sites:

Buehler: Buehler is the world's premier manufacturer of scientific equipment and supplies for use in materials analysis.

Online Metals:  Online small quantity sales of stainless, aluminum, brass, copper, and pipe valves and fittings.

Materials Resource Sites:

About.com - Composites Materials Guide: The Composite Materials Guide, with About.com guide Barry Berenberg, provides categorized links to composites sites, original feature articles, a bulletin board, a chat room, daily news headlines, and job listings.

About.com - Metals Guide: The About Metals Guide is one of the most comprehensive online guide for the metal industry. It includes buyers guides, global supplier lists, metal prices, metal properties, specifications, cross references, e-commerce sites, software, conversion tools, industry news and more. Covers every metal from aluminum to zinc.

Advanced Materials & Processes Technology Information Analysis Center (AMPTIAC):  Materials and processing products, technical inquiries, consulting, upcoming conferences, and library services.

CERAM Research: Internationally renowned centre of technical excellence for the ceramics and other materials-based industries.

Composite Materials Handbook: Provides engineering data and processing information necessary to design and fabricate polymer, metal, and ceramic matrix composites.

Current Web Contents™: An ever-growing collection of high-quality, scholarly Web sites developed by ISI® (Institute for Scientific Information®) , the publishers of Current Contents®.

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL):  A UK-based searchable, browsable database of quality engineering information on the Internet.  Also available are bibliographic databases, particularly the Recent Advances in Manufacturing database.

The Hendrix Group: The Hendrix Group Inc. provides materials engineering, corrosion, failure analysis and mechanical integrity services to the chemical, refining, pulp & paper, oil & gas and pipeline industries.

InterCorr:  The One Stop Materials and Corrosion Information Resource designed to support the technical needs of the materials and corrosion community.

Materials Edge: Materials Edge is based in the United Kingdom and focuses on materials science & engineering technology transfer news, resources, information & recruitment.

MatHub:  Web site devoted to computational materials science, including information about modeling and informatics.

NetComposites: Composites news, education, information, careers, forums, and comprehensive composites online stores.

Minerals Engineering International Online: free access to current information on all aspects of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy.

Online Engineering Calculators: Interactive Calculators for everything from Acoustics to Welding

Protective Coatings, Linings, and Related Resources: Provides information on coating manufacturers, coating products, and has a searchable corrosion resource database.

ScienceNet: ScienceNet is a free science information service, staffed by scientists who are expert in explaining complex topics in everyday language.

THOR: The Online Resource of electronic journals provided by Purdue University Libraries

TPSX: A database for advanced thermal protection material properties provided by NASA Ames Research Center

The Virtual Metallography Lab: Provides information about metallography as well as a good selection of resources for taking photomicrographs.

Woodhead Publishing Limited: Publish The Welding Institute's books and other publications relating to welding, materials engineering and technical textiles.  All publications are available for purchase on their web site.

The WWW Virtual Library: Provides information on  a variety of engineering subjects such as Chemistry, Ceramics,etc and links to other related sites.

X-ray reflections:  Use this online calculator to determine x-ray specular reflections by multilayers with interface roughness.  Created by Sergey Stepanov at the Argonne National Laboratory.

National Laboratories:

Aerospace Mechanical Systems Division at NASA's Langley Research Center: Provides information on NASA Langley's concurrent engineering process used in the development of aircraft, spacecraft and flight instruments, along with descriptions of environmental testing facilities.  Also hosts library of engineering related sites.

Energy Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL): Provides recent ET publications and information on ET programs and sections, e.g. ceramics, corrosion, analytical thermal-hydraulics, alpha-gamma hot cell facility, etc.

Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL): Download Science Bytes (selected publications in pdf format) and find information on special topics, facilities, and msd groups.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-Physics Laboratory: Provides a material database containing physical constants, atomic spectroscopic data, x-ray and gamma data, nuclear physics data and other NIST data.

NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory - Polymers Division:  Research areas include: Characterization & Measurement, Electronics Materials, Biomaterials, Processing Characterization, and Multivariant Measurement Methods.

NASA Ames Research Center: Specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.

Professional Society Sites:

The AISE Steel Foundation: Education, training, publications, research, and electronic resources for the steel industry.

American Iron & Steel Institute - Steel Works: For news, steel links, statistics, markets and applications, as well as publications.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI): For membership, publications, search for standards, news, events, and standards resources.

American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM): For membership, publications, search for standards, and a free laboratory directory.

ASM International

Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE): Member-based technical organization in the steel industry dedicated to the advancement of technical and engineering phases of the production and processing of iron and steel.

IAI - The International Aluminum Institute: Comprehensive information on the production and applications of aluminum, with links to all of their Member companies and regional aluminum associations.

IPMM - Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials: Provides details of conferences and links to other processing sites.

MRS - Materials Research Society: Dedicated to goal-oriented basic and applied research on materials of technological importance.

SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering: Provides information and forms for membership, publications, conferences, and technical services, and links for reference information, officers, chapters, and the International Business Office.

TMS - The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society: Promotes the science and engineering professions concerned with minerals, metals and materials.

Science and Engineering Dictionaries:

The Acronym Finder: Look up 300,000 acronyms/abbreviations & their meanings.

Chemistry Science Dictionary: Translates chemistry terms from German to English and English to German